Saturday, November 2, 7pm

in the Bear Gallery

 

In November, writer Frank Soos joins Fairbanks Arts Association in the Bear Gallery for a literary reading! Joining this hour of entertainment means that you get to experience a former State Poet Laureate share his work with a small audience in a space full of art. Come early to enjoy the current exhibit on view, enjoy the reading and then stay for conversation afterwards. You never know what you’ll learn!

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Read below what Frank says about his work as a writer: 

“I’ve been writing essays and fiction for I can’t remember how many years now. While these are very different forms with very different technical expectations, they have this in common (or at least they do in my thinking):  Both forms start with questions—questions about the human condition I can only find one way to answer. I begin to put my question down on paper, not in a direct way, but in a most elliptical form circling actions and ideas, poking at them from as many directions as possible.  

I don’t think I am looking for answers to these questions in the narrow sense of the word.  Instead I am looking to wrestle with them and invite my readers to enter in with me in a struggle to come to a larger understanding of the very question I began with.  

As such, what I write is not nice and neat.  It’s often a mess and may seem inconclusive to a reader.  That reader would be right. I’m not offering a through-line, a way to walk my way of thinking, but a chance for a reader to take up the question for him or herself.  I wish my readers well, but would suggest I’m more likely to push them over a precipice rather than lead them down a path.” – Frank Soos

 

Fairbanks Arts programs are made possible by individual and corporate contributions, the City of Fairbanks Hotel/Motel Bed Tax, Fairbanks North Star Borough and Alaska State Council on the Arts.